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“Eddie, I am definitely not going to date anyone else now,” Buck said, straightening up and frowning.
Eddie could feel himself flush, hating once again that his cheeks always showed his feelings. “I mean, you can,” he stuttered. “This doesn’t change anything—”
“Why do you always say that?” Buck snapped, pulling back. Another tear crested his waterline on the other side and he sniffled and swiped at it furiously with one hand. “That—that nothing will change. I tell you something life-changing and you assure me nothing will change,” Buck said, looking devastated. “I want things to change, Eddie. I want you to want things to change. I want you to want things, period.”
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OR: one year, two funerals, one LAFD gala, and approximately a dozen times Eddie had to sigh and say “Yes, it’s Buck’s.”
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Eddie rolls his eyes. “Do I want to enjoy a soak in a hot tub on a pleasantly cool night, soothing my aching muscles and aging joints, possibly while drinking a beer and enjoying the company of my best friend? Yes? I am not insane.”
“I just… I figured you’d be one of those ‘hot tubs just make people soup’ people.” Buck grimaces. Eddie grimaces back.
“No one I would rather become soup with, bud,” Eddie agrees.
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Buck and Eddie test out the hot tub on Buck’s patio. And the ground next to it. And the bed.
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“I don’t want this to be how this started,” Buck says. He grips the sink behind him and stays still. He can’t be the one to break the glass. He’s already full of grief and guilt and regret. There’s no room for more. No room for anything else, not even Eddie.
“This isn’t how this started,” Eddie says finally. He turns and looks at Buck. “We’ve both looked away so many times.”
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Two weeks of building up to a fight in the kitchen after Bobby’s funeral.
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Tonight is Buck’s housewarming party. Eddie drops Chris off at a friend’s and shows up hours early, desperate to have all of Buck’s attention to himself for a little while, with a case of beer and some of those flat yellow mangoes that taste the best. Buck lights up when he sees them, immediately turning to grab a paring knife to start butchering one before Eddie’s even set the beer down in the granite countertop next to the fridge.
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Buck’s hair is gray at the temples, buzzed neatly on the sides and a bit longer and curlier on top than Chris remembers him wearing it, and there’s a new scar through one of his eyebrows. He looks good, like he’s living a happy life, and the only possible reason Chris can imagine for Buck to be here at Helena Diaz’s funeral in El Paso is that Chris’s father brought him.
“Why would you come?” Chris snaps at him.
Buck blinks. “Why wouldn’t I come?”
“She didn’t mean anything to you.”
“I’m not here for her,” Buck scoffs. “She is dead. I’m here for him.”
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Chris is forced to grapple with the choice he made eleven years ago when his father comes back for Helena’s funeral.
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This isn’t the first time something’s gone horribly, catastrophically wrong for Buck, but it’s okay. It’ll work out in the end. It always has so far.
This is just a temporary setback. He pinkie promises.
Or, Buck loses his leg, falls in love, and gets his job back. Not necessarily in that order.
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17 Jun 2025
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every so often grey water comes up in conversation for me (i work in insurance) and i think of this fic, and i hope it eventually gets finished and 8b didn’t kill it for the writer. re-read it again today, and now it is easier to find for me if i bookmark it.
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Buck stands up so quickly he nearly knocks over his drink. “That guy just grabbed his ass.”
Hen tugs him back down to his seat. “Yeah, and Eddie does not look mad about it. Chill out.”
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Or, Eddie spends the summer finding himself while Buck is forced to watch.Series
- Part 2 of i go crazy, see red
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Buck's mind goes blank: suddenly and perfectly blank like a briskly shaken Etch A Sketch, the tracks of his thoughts swept clean. Eddie's mouth is on his. Eddie's nose bumps his nose, and his stubble rasps, and Eddie is kissing him.
And this is probably a bad idea.
The thought surfaces briefly. This is probably a bad idea. They don't do this. They haven't talked about this. Until thirty seconds ago, he was perfectly certain that Eddie was straight.
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Or: Eddie's love life gets some supernatural meddling.
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08 May 2025
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Noah was good for something once, and so shall he be again.
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18 Dec 2024
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“ By the time they started letting him throw again, Lowry had learned how to pitch through all kinds of pain.”
this line will always be part of my personal background radiation. i remain so grateful beck remembered to put these ancient baseball fics up here before she disappeared.
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Helena Díaz dies on a Tuesday.
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15 Dec 2024